Fan of his original AI book, looks like this one is less technical and more suited for business people.
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Data Science in Context – Peter Norvig's New Book
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#12Thanks to the four authors and publisher for making this available as a PDF download. I am definitely going to give this a read. After decades of more or less using GOFAI, the last eight years has mostly been machine learning and deep learning. Lately I have been scratching an itch to combine old fashioned symbolic AI with more modern deep learning (hybrid systems). I started a new job on Monday where I think this ma…
Are you sure? You sound like someone who’s interested in actually doing things; the book looks like endless rambling about high level ethical/conceptual/societal context for data science. It looks about as interesting as picking up a random volume of a random social sciences journal. I think Peter Norvig’s python code is beautiful and amazing though, and probably same for most things he’s done.
The code is the least important part of data science.
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#13> This metaphorical braid shows the integration of the foundational fields, labeled S, OR, and C. Figure I.1 Integration of Statistics, Operations Research, and Computing
Brilliant.
The single biggest issue I see working in this area today are two things:
Lack of historical context. People have no clue about the history of quantitative management (rocky, lots of ups and downs)
And sales. Terrible, terrible salesmanship from nerds.
Anyone involved in this field professionally needs to read this book.
Rapidly.
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#14I was really looking forward to diving deeper into this, having enjoyed, and learnt, a lot from Peter Norvig's blog and writings in the past. I especially enjoyed the succinctness and density of knowledge in his writing.
Disappointingly, to me, this book seems to lack both of those properties. It seems to meander between talking about core data science concepts, and also about privacy, ethics etc. Given the title of the book perhaps this content makes sense, but it was not useful for me personally. Wish the authors the best.
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#15I was excited at clicking the topic - quickly read/skimmed the PDF, and it reads more like an industry analysis than a code/technical book related to the application of data science. Quite disappointed.
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#16I was excited at clicking the topic - quickly read/skimmed the PDF, and it reads more like an industry analysis than a code/technical book related to the application of data science. Quite disappointed.
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#17I was really looking forward to diving deeper into this, having enjoyed, and learnt, a lot from Peter Norvig's blog and writings in the past. I especially enjoyed the succinctness and density of knowledge in his writing. Disappointingly, to me, this book seems to lack both of those properties. It seems to meander between talking about core data science concepts, and also about privacy, ethics etc. Given the title of…
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#18I was really looking forward to diving deeper into this, having enjoyed, and learnt, a lot from Peter Norvig's blog and writings in the past. I especially enjoyed the succinctness and density of knowledge in his writing. Disappointingly, to me, this book seems to lack both of those properties. It seems to meander between talking about core data science concepts, and also about privacy, ethics etc. Given the title of…
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#19They should change the title. It is not a book for programmers about implementation of data science techniques. It is a book for managers about concerns surrounding the application of data science in various domains. The title should be something like "Social Concerns in the Application of Data Science."
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#20Fan of his original AI book, looks like this one is less technical and more suited for business people.
Funny, I was going to say it seems similar to that one - dense with words but light on technical theory (I was tempted to say 'content' but I'm sure that's unduly harsh, as you say this will suit some). Maybe I didn't spend enough time with it, my recollection is just of it waffling on and on about agents.